This month’s chocolate delivery! Again, courtesy of Origins Chocolate Bar in New Westminster.
Ramblings of General Geekery
So far the Apple Intelligence ads I keep seeing on YouTube are so super cringe. It looks to me like the feature is marketed to assholes and grifters.
Humble Bundle is doing more and more shady stuff… not only do they default to “not very good” splits between creator, charity, and themselves, they also have this dark UI pattern where the sliders are totally not on the same scale:
I just spent a couple hours with a bunch of 13-year-olds, and after listening to their various discussions, my first thought is “I should really cut off all and any access to internet for my kids”…
Aliens landed here, their electromagnetic anti-gravity propulsion drive causing leaves to arrange in strange concentric patterns. That’s the only rational explanation. Dog for scale.
“After these next mountains, we’ll be in Mordor, Mr Frodo!”
Soundcheck imminent for this week’s gig!
Gamemaster screens aren’t there to prevent #TTRPG players from peeking and cheating. They prevent spoilers (such as when you have a Bestiary book open with a big-ass monster illustration on the page), and add vertical real estate for extra information that would otherwise not fit on the table.
European Apple bloggers: “We actually like this European iOS! And we don’t miss that AI stuff anyway.”
US Apple bloggers: “You’re wrong! Government oversight sucks!”
It’s so fun to watch Americans get all upset about this.
